They had highly tactile covers and used bold period typography to give a sense of when and where each book was coming from. The following year we got Penguin by Design, an illustrated history of ...

Some one has discovered all of a sudden that the designers of book covers are "at last getting the recognition they have for some time deserved, and are beginning to sign their work like other ...

Thousands of distractions are just a click away. Is it any wonder that book-cover design is more important than ever? Good-looking books aren’t new, of course. Booksellers have long understood ...

My staff consists of dedicated design teams that create the covers for 16 distinct imprints within Penguin Random House, and the visual book identities of literally hundreds of authors.

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will ...

It’s common knowledge that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but… By working on the visual side of books, graphic designers, illustrators and typographers help create the perfect reading ...

Of course, this isn’t to say that what hits the market is bad—in fact, I’d contend we’re in a golden age of book cover design, with each publishing season bringing a deluge of insanely ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine.

How do book covers communicate with an audience? How do designers and publishers make their decisions? And how can it go wrong like this? I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with ...

The Melania cover title - in capital letters in white text, centered on a plain black background - appears close to that of the Chanel book ... open image in gallery The covers of Chanel Catwalk ...